Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland’s Industrial Schools.
Author: RAFTERY, Mary & O’SULLIVAN, Eoin.
Dublin: New Island, 1999. 424 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
“Suffer the Little Children exposes a hidden Ireland of industrial schools, reform schools, convents, orphanages, places of such brutality, even savagery, you will wince from page to page…”–Frank McCourt. A damning indictment of the Irish state system of dealing with orphaned and other children. The book covers such issues as child labour, sexual abuse, beatings, as well as how the schools were funded and run.
ISBN: 1874597839
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